Clothes-drying rack.



' T. G. AMSDEN. CLOTHES DRYING RACK. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 30,1910.

J Ell i imnte ma 21, 19,12.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS G. AMSDEN, F BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN wjrocnrEFnALE,

- 0F STAFFORD, NEW YORK.

CLOTHES-DRYING RACK.

' To aZZwhom it may camera mary. object the provision of a rack of this character by means of which the portions of the clothes in contact with the supportingbars are as quickly dried as the parts thereof hanging from the bars.

Another object of my invention is the provision of means for quickly and securely fastening the rack to a stove-pipe so that it may be positioned over the stove and the clothes supported thereon be thereby subjected to the heat rising from the stove, thus more quickly drying the clothes hung upon the rack.

A further object of my invention is the provision of hollow open-ended supportingarms whereby the heat. is permitted. to enter said arms and thus dry the portions of the clothes in contact with the bar as quickly as the depending portions thereof.

With these andother objects in View, my invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts and in the particular construction of the support-- ing-arms, as will be hereinafter described and articularly pointed out in the subjoine claim.

In the drawings,-Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved drying rack fastened to a stove-pipe. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken on line 2+2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on line 3-3, Fig.2. Fig. 4 is alongitudinal section of a portion of one of the supporting arms. Fig. 5 is a cross-section of one of the supporting arms. Fig. 6 is a detached perspective view of the securing band by means of which the rackproper is secured to the stove-pipe.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

The reference letter A designates a stovepipe to which my improved clothes dryingrack B- is attached by means of the securingband C.

Specification of Iietters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1912.

Application filed March 30, 1910. Serial-No. 552,353.

The securing-band comprises a segmental. plate 0 having an elongated vertically-disposed opening 0 near each end and passing through said openings are segmental bandinembers D having one of their ends passed through ,the openings 0 and recurved, as at d, so as to provide a secure fastening to the plate 0. The opposite ends of said segmental band-members have outstanding ears d provided with alined perforations through which a clamping screw E is passed; said screw being of any practicable construction capable of drawing the outer ends of the band-members together when the securing band is placed around a stove-pipe.

The segmental plate 0 is made of thin sheet metal so that its shape or curvature can be readily altered to conform to the diameter of the stove-pipe around which the securing band is to be placed and the band members D are also flexible and provided with a series of openings at corresponding points so' that when the securing band is to be placed around a stove-pipe, said members can be bent at the desired points to bring the corresponding openings into registration so as to receive the clamping-screw by means of which the band is securely fastened to the stove-pipe. By making the clamping screw of considerable length, the outer ends.

of the band'members need notbe brought in contact, as the screw will easily extend through the separated outstanding lugs.

When it is desired to retain the securingband on the stove-pipe, the outstanding lugs may be cutoff adjacent the point where the clamping-screw passes through, provided it was found necessary to use the secondset of openings in the band-members in order to secure the hand to the stove-pipe. Asthe band-members are made of thin material, I preferably provide the clamping screw with a collar 6 near one end and apply a nut e to its opposite end, which nut may be threaded onto the screw to the extent needed to securely fasten the band to the stovepipe. The opposite recurved ends at of the band-members lie in contact with the stovepipe and are therefore prevented from becoming detached from the plate 0.

Arranged vertically between the ends of the segmental plate 0 is a fastening-bar F having a narrow upturned hook f at its lower end and a narrow off-set extension f at its upper end; said hook and extension being preferably in alinement for a purpose to appear hereinafter.

My improved drying-rack proper is of that general form in which the supportingarms can be swung laterally and separated to the extent desired; said arms being pivotally secured to a head capable of swinging vertically on a hanger; and in the drawings, G designates the hanger which is formed of a fiat piece of metal having an opening 9 at its upper end and a notch g at its lower end; and pivotally aflixed to said hanger so as to swing vertically thereon, is a head H com-- prising two substantially fiat plates h, 7L between which the inner ends of the sup porting-arms I are pivotally secured so that they may swing laterally through an arc of a circle.

As the connection of the head H to the hanger G forms no part of my invention and is now in common use, I deem it unnecessary to describe or illustrate the same in detail.

J designates a retainer-arm formed of wire secured at its upper end to the hanger G, as at j, so that it may swing on said hanger, and at its lower end it has a hook j adapted to engage the plate h of the supporting head H as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

In order to secure the drying-rack to the band C, it is simply necessary to position the hanger G so that the extension 7' of the bar F can be passed through the opening 9 of the hanger and so that the bight of the upturned hook f of said hanger will enter the notch g at the lower end of said hanger. This will properly support the rack over the stove so that the clothing suspended from the supporting-arms will be thoroughly and quickly dried. hen not in use, the supportingarms with the head H may be swung to hang vertically, it being simply necessary to disengage the hook j of the retainer-arm from the plate h of said head, whereupon the latter and the arms I will gravitate and assume such position, thus occupying but little space.

One of the essential features of my invention resides in the supporting-arms I which are made hollow, as shown in Figs. 4; and 5 and tapered from their inner ends toward their outer ends. Each of these arms is in the form of tubes constructed of a strip of metal bent or curved so that the longitudinal edges abut, as shown in Fig. 5, and the ends of these arms are open so that the air can pass through them and thus dry the portions of the clothing in contact with the arms as quickly and as thoroughly as the portions suspended therefrom, particularly so when the rack is supported over a stove in the path of the ascending hot air.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is,

In'a clothes drying-rack, the combination with a stove-pipe, of a securing-band encircling said stove-pipe and comprising a segmental plate having an opening near each end, two oppositely-curr ed band-members having one of their ends passed through said openings and recurved to lie against the inner face of said s'egn'iental plate and their opposite ends provided with outstanding lugs, a clamping-screw passed through said lugs, a vertically-disposed bar fastened to the outer face of said segmental plate and having an upstanding extension at its upper end and an upwardly-directed hook at its lower end, a vertically-disposed hanger having an opening near its upper end through which said narrow extension is passed and a notch at its lower end into which the bight of said upwardly-directed hook enters, a plurality of clothes supporting-arms arranged to swing on said hanger, and means to retain said arms in either vertical or horizontal position.

I11 testimony whereof, I haveaffixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS G. AMSDEN.

Vitnesses CHRIST FEINLE, J r.. EMIL NEUHART.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G. 

